On this past cloudy Saturday, Noel and I had a little adventure.
We headed west out of the city into the green Howard County farmlands. Our destination–Larriland Farms, my favorite pick your own spot. Although Larriland is just 22 miles outside of Baltimore, it feels like a different world out there.
I had only ever been to Larriland before to pick apples, which is one of the things the farm is famous for. During apple season, the farm is packed, and they have a month long apple festival set up at their barn, where they sell apple turnovers, cider, the works. I think there are even hayrides. It’s a happening apple place.
We went on Saturday on a mission for peaches, and on such a cool cloudy day, the farm was very calm and peaceful. Only a few other cars were in the lot when we arrived, promising a day of quiet picking. I had read a rumor online that Larriland still had some blueberries hanging around–a rarity in mid-August. And when I saw the blueberry sign up on the board at the farm Noel had to keep me from running to the field!
Yeah, the blueberries weren’t super plentiful, and they were a bit small, but they tasted delicious. After about an hour of effort Noel and I had about 4 pounds, more than enough to make another batch of my beloved blueberry jam.
After blueberries, it was on to the main event–peaches! It took us a few tries to find the right field, but after we did, the peaches were plentiful and the picking was good!
This sign shows the best thing about pick your own–the prices!!
There were so many ripe peaches on the trees, the fruit was literally FALLING off. Noel kept wanting to pick up the ones on the ground, and I kept making him leave them. Needless to say, with fruit like that, the peach picking went MUCH faster.
So it was a very fruitful trip out to the near west(ern) counties. Noel was a little skeptical about what we were going to DO with all of this fruit, but in the end I think he was amazed with the results!
Come back on Friday to see what happened to all of that fruit! Any guesses?
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Um, is Noel trying to emulate John Goodman from “The Big Lebowski”?
My guess is JAM!
Brian–no white russians were consumed in the picking of this fruit.
I’m going to guess peach pie?
I am also incredibly jealous. I want to pick blueberries and peaches!!
yum! That looks like such a blast! I just tried some mango peach salsa the other day. That might be tasty to try with those peaches.
I can’t wait to read about what you do with all those peaches!
Looks like so much fun. I have never been there. I wish I could go. I love peaches. I have however been on a nectarine kick recently and I have too stop myself from eating too many each day.
Picking stone fruits and berries are among my favorite memories of the summer.
what a fantastic way to spend a day…and what great looking peaches.